Taking benzos before work could be a firing offence for me.
1 Like
No, I’ve been broken a very long time. I manage to be employed part time though.
1 Like
I am able to work. Have been employed with the same firm for the past 18 months. I am receiving 400mg of injectable Abilify every 4 weeks. Close to my mid-40s and drive to work in my car.
4 Likes
I work full time as a cleaner in a clinic. The work is OK. My colleague is currently on holiday for 6 weeks so it’s very quiet here haha. (she’s chatty
). The work is not the easiest but easier than any job I’ve ever had as I do not need to talk to people generally. Good Times…
4 Likes
I can’t right now. Im 35 never worked. I’d like to work at a gas station some day.
I can relate, doing Instacart was making me super paranoid so I quit. I also didn’t like driving to places I wasn’t familiar with. I was always afraid I would get into an accident.
If I have to I might be able to work a low stress job. May be forced to if parents go before me. Would likely slowly end up draining draining savings if taking over current household bills on current income. Don’t know if retirement income will be higher or not. Don’t really want to move.
I feel like I’ve said this a million times before, but I feel on high meds I am mentally slow, lethargic and sleep too much. On too low meds I stress and get paranoid sometimes. Neither is very conducive to work. But you do what you gotta do, so.
No I can’t work
I did manage to volunteer in the recovery meeting place bookstore for one or two four hour shifts a week, but that’s about all I could manage. I’m in no shape to work a real job. The volunteer job was the most I could manage.
I tried working at a factory when I was full of Haldol. It didn’t work out. I also tried washing dishes in the Sirloin Stockade. That didn’t work out too.
1 Like
I can work part time.
2 Likes
No. All jobs require neurotypical functioning which I lack. You’re considered “disabled” if you can’t gain gainful employment long-term in a competitive environment as most jobs or almost all jobs are competitive.
2 Likes
Currently no. I’m planning to take a sabbatical in 2023 and try again next year.
1 Like
Work is a struggle, but the meds do help. I find the social element to be the hardest
1 Like
Used to work, but every time i stress to much i end up almost relapsing. This illness sucks, i would like to contribute to society but cant
My schizophrenia is pretty bad in that even with the best meds regimen I have ever had I still have delusions it’s just I don’t fixate on them as much as I used to, but social face to face interactions with people other than family (heck I even am paranoid of a lot of y’all here in this forum) is difficult for me.
Glad that I received my certification in Microsoft Office applications before I started looking for employment. You need some skills that are useful to all business firms in what you say is a “competitive” environment.
1 Like
Is it still called MOUS? I did it on Office 97. It is so poorly named that I have never displayed my certificate.
Take out the “U” in MOUS and you have “Microsoft Office Specialist” (MOS). I achieved the Word 2016, Excel 2016 & Access 2016 certifications. Well in today’s Internet connected world, displaying your certifications is easy with LinkedIn. In 1997, the Internet just began with 56K modems and there was no LinkedIn back then.
2 Likes
I can’t stand LinkedIn. Very little there of use and mostly people I don’t want to talk to outside of work. My profile specfically says I’m not interested in being offered opportunities, but I’m constantly pestered by recruiters anyhow.
1 Like